This explains in part why the GOP is so desperate to make Adam Schiff (and the Mueller investigation) the target of hearings. They wanted to get ahead of the stuff they knew was coming about Nunes (and probably X number of other GOP reps & senators) participating directly in the underlying scheme to make those revelations seem like tit for tat.
It’s cynical, nihilist evil but McConnell et al are pretty fucking good at what they do and they know their audience. They’ve laid enough of a foundation with their base about all the other nonsense that they can plausibly appeal to the “both sides are corrupt so who cares” enlightened centrists out there and hand-wave this stuff away.
Or not, who knows, but nobody could claim to be surprised at this point if it works like a charm.
This is good stuff. I guess you could say that the real Lev Parnas was the friends Devin Nunes made along the way?
